pearlings

English

Etymology 1

Noun

pearlings

1. plural of pearling

Etymology 2

Probably a corruption of purflings. See purfle.

Alternative forms

• pearlins

Noun

1. (Scotland) A kind of lace of silk or thread.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pearlings”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• espringal, graplines, presignal, rapelings, relapsing, spanglier